What was a real challenge was configuring the office’s network setup so that the machine could be accessed remote.

All would’ve gone very fast I were aware of the following things:

There’s a difference between TCP and UDP, and it’s exactly the opposite of what I thought it was.

When a PC on your network is resolving a DNS entry that brings it back to your network, you ain’t gonna see that machine if it’s not yours.

The all-in-one-router-switch-thingie we’re setup with is an old clunky piece of crap that just barely works.

(Thanks, Martin! Now I know. And knowing earlier would’ve spared me the battle).

So after a while, I ended up figuring out that the setup had been properly working for the last hour and that what I was doing to test it was never going to work.

Martin then got me acquainted with the hosts file, which I had already met when setting up gentoo. I wasn’t completely aware of it’s use and was unaware of its existence under windows (<windows>\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, if you gotta know). So I could setup my local network to access the server the same was as from outside the office.

My next step is to setup a cvs server.

Then, depending on what’s happening, I’ll be wanting to setup (KDE) or (postfix,httpd,mysql,php,tomcat) We’ll see what the future has in store for padawan Maze and master Anakin.